Comments on: ‘You’ve got some f*#king nerve’: festival organiser directs award-worthy social media #fail

By: Clint Cure

Clint Cure — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 04:44:51 +0000

I like this one. I’ve never entered Tropfest BTW.
http://cailyoung.tumblr.com/post/43393465803/an-open-letter-to-tropfest

By: c d

c d — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:45:07 +0000

Bloody oath this incestuous little industry gets touchy over the slightest issue. As for Johnny, he’s lucky he had Anthony LaPaglia and Simon Baker ready to throw him some scraps when his directing career hit the skids.

By: Nick Shimmin

Nick Shimmin — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:09:13 +0000

Josh and Roger are dead right, the self-importance of turning this feeble social media exchange into a story is completely pathetic. Good on Polson for getting pissed off, frankly, we need a bit more anger. It’s Buckmaster being precious, if you ask me. But thinking this is worth an article is just one more reason I can’t be bothered wasting my money on Crikey.

By: Josh Reed

Josh Reed — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:30:33 +0000

You know, I find this article a bit tediously passive aggressive. Big deal if Polson didn’t like what you wrote and got narcy on Twitter. At the end of the day, I’d prefer to have people being honestly expressive on social media, even if they embarrass themselves a bit, than self-censoring and moderated up the wazoo.

By: Peter Hull

Peter Hull — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 05:06:03 +0000

Why do people or businesses have to play this so called social media game? Anyone or business can survive and thrive without facebook and twitter. The just give a platform to people who nobody would have cared about previously.

By: Wexford

Wexford — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 02:30:49 +0000

Don’t know if it’s a social media disaster for John Polson so much as revealing to the world that he’s a bit of a dick. And clearly a sensitive one, at that.

It’s some belated image management in deleting those tweets, I wouldn’t infer any apology from that.

The “mate”‘s in the stream from both contributors was amusing as the red mist descended over their eyes

By: James Carey

James Carey — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 02:11:29 +0000

Very well played. Acted like a journalist should. However, I feel that there are mistakes made in life, and he made one.

He doesn’t want you to see those tweets because he knows he’s made a mistake. Hopefully he apologises directly to you.

By: Sally James

Sally James — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:13:12 +0000

For someone that runs to the media every time he wants something, John Polson sure is a sensitive petal. Happy to abuse the media process, not so happy to answer some basic questions. Methinks he doth protest too much.

By: John Donovan

John Donovan — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:09:39 +0000

That’s a strange comment Roger.

I think Luke’s original story is topical, as Tropfest is now such a huge event, how it is positioned and sold to the public and the industry is worthy of analysis. Similarly, if the figurehead of that event is obviously very upset with how the event is perceived and reported upon, and takes to the media to vent this, that also is news. It may not be page 1 of the Australian, but in the context of the original report, it certainly is.

I’m not sure why you bothered commenting if you thought it was of no interest?

By: roger

roger — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:57:10 +0000

Oh get over yourself Luke. Claiming Polson’s tweets are ‘bizarre’ and a ‘PR disaster’ is just more hack-speak for a non-story. Polson is clearly pissed off, but so what? How much longer are off the cuff angry tweets going to be written up as Gotcha! stories by journos? If he rang you up on the old fashioned phone and gave you and old fashioned serve, would you write it up? I doubt it. And as for doing Tropfest real damage, with all due respect, I don’t think a Crikey blog is likely to bring down a 20 year old event that has immense public appeal. Grow up. We are not interested in luvvy-spats.